Hello,
Could you please distribute the following job offer? Thanks.
Best,
Pascal
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3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Semantic Memory and its Acquisition (Inria and University of Lille, France)
We invite applications for a 3-year PhD position at the University of
Lille in the context of the recently funded research project
"COMANCHE" (Computational Models of Lexical Meaning and Change). The
position is funded by Inria, the French national research institute in
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
COMANCHE proposes to transfer and adapt neural word embeddings
algorithms to model the acquisition and evolution of word meaning, by
comparing them with linguistic theories on language acquisition and
language evolution. At the intersection between Natural Language
Processing, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, this project
intends to validate or revise some of these theories, while also
developing computational models that are less data hungry and
computationally intensive as they exploit new inductive biases
inspired by these disciplines.
The first strand of the project, on which the successful candidate
will work, focuses on the development of computational models of
semantic memory and its acquisition. Two main research directions will
be pursued. On the one hand, we will compare the structural properties
associated to different semantic spaces derived from word embedding
algorithms to those found in human semantic memory as reflected in
behavioral data (such as typicality norms) as well as brain imaging
data. The latter data will then used as additional supervision to
inject more hierarchical structure into the learned semantic
spaces. One the other hand, we intend to experiment with training
regimes for word embedding algorithms that are closer to those of
humans when they acquire language, controlling the quantity as well as
the linguistic complexity of the inputs fed to the learning algorithms
through the use of longitudinal and child directed speech corpora
(e.g., CHILDES, Colaje). In both cases, both English and French data
will be considered.
The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in computational
linguistics or computer science or cognitive science and has prior
experience in word embedding models. Furthermore, the candidate will
provide strong programming skills, expertise in machine learning
approaches and is eager to work across languages.
The position is affiliated with the MAGNET team at Inria, Lille [1] as
well as with the SCALAB group at University of Lille [2] in an effort
to strenghten collaborations between these two groups, and ultimately
foster cross-fertilizations between Natural Language Processing and
Psycholinguistics.
Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However,
you are encouraged to apply early as we shall start processing the
applications as and when they are received. Applications, written in
English or French, should include a brief cover letter with research
interests and vision, a CV (including your contact address, work
experience, publications), and contact information for at least 2
referees. Applications (and questions) should be sent to Angèle
Brunellière (angele.brunelliere(a)univ-lille.fr) and Pascal Denis
(pascal.denis(a)inria.fr).
The starting date of the position is 1 October 2022 or soon
thereafter, for a total of 3 full years.
Best regards,
Angèle Brunellière and Pascal Denis
[1] https://team.inria.fr/magnet/
[2] https://scalab.univ-lille.fr/
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Pascal
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Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse !
Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria.
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Pascal Denis
Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe
Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse
Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24
Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/
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[Apologies for cross-posting]
== Second Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts ==
1st Workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS-2025)
We would like to invite you to submit papers to AAAS workshop co-located with NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT<https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu> in Hestia Hotel Europa in Tallinn, Estonia on March 5th, 2025.
Workshop website: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/
== Important Dates ==
Submission DL: 16 December 2024 (both papers and abstracts)
Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2025
Camera-ready DL: 3 February 2025
Workshop: 5 March 2025 (full day)
All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
== Overview ==
Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) explores the assessment of pronunciation and speaking skills of children, language learners, people with speech sound disorders and methods to provide automatic rating and feedback using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models (LLMs). Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for detection and quantification of speech disorders and for developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The important applications of non-standard speech also include interfaces for children and elderly speakers as an alternative to using text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop ASR and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available and expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the researchers in Nordic and Baltic countries.
== Topics of Interest ==
In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics:
Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation
ASA for spoken L2 proficiency
ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD)
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners
ASR for children and young L2 learners
ASA and ASR for Nordic and other low-resource languages and tasks
Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games
Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs
== Submission Details ==
We accept both short and long papers, as well as demo papers. The submissions must describe original and unpublished work.
Paper length:
Short and demo papers up to 4 pages.
Long papers up to 8 pages.
References are not included in the page count, and the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be added to the page to address reviewer comments.
Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published in the ACL anthology. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The links to the templates can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osWGzuRnYRQGRS70Lx_pdQKrIT-NefKS/viewhttps://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-nodalida-baltic-h…
The submission will be through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaas2025
We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page long extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the peer-reviewed papers, will be considered for presentation by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. The abstracts can be based on results related to our theme and already published elsewhere. The abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but only in the workshop program.
Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers.
== Invited Speakers ==
We have the pleasure to announce two invited speakers:
1. Nina R. Benway: What is so hard about AI Speech Therapy? Evidence from Efficacy Trials.
Nina R Benway, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson. Nina completed her doctoral training in speech-language pathology (concentration: neuroscience) with Dr. Jonathan Preston at Syracuse University, focusing on clinical trials in children with chronic rhotic speech sound disorders. The three studies of her dissertation resulted in the curation of an open-access 175,000-utterance speech corpus, the engineering of audio classification algorithms predicting speech-language pathologist perception of rhotic speech errors, and the clinical trial validation of an artificial intelligence tool that fully automates a speech sound treatment session. Nina’s doctoral training builds upon her undergraduate training in linguistics (acoustic phonetics) at Cornell University, graduate clinical training at The College of Saint Rose, and six years of clinical practice. Through these experiences Nina has refined a multidisciplinary skill set in speech science, speech signal processing, natural language processing, corpus phonetics, machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI), user interface development, cognitive frameworks of learning, and neurocomputational frameworks of speech production.
2. Ari Huhta: Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes.
Ari Huhta is a Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include diagnostic foreign/second language (L2) assessment, computerised assessment, self-assessment, as well as the development of reading, writing and vocabulary knowledge in L2. He was involved in developing the large-scale multilingual DIALANG online assessment and feedback system in the early 2000s and since then he has specialised in assessments that support language learning. Although his research has focused on learning and assessing reading and writing, he has been involved in designing several rating scales for speaking and in evaluating rating quality and studying rater behavior. Recently, he has participated in research projects that are developing ASR and automated assessment of L2 speaking, as well as using LLMs to evaluate Finnish L2 learners’ proficiency level.
== Organizers ==
Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi
Giampiero Salvi, NTNU
Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet
Sari Ylinen, Tampere University
Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku
Tamas Grosz, Aalto University
Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University
Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University
Nhan Phan, Aalto University
This workshop is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893.
== Contact Information ==
For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi
++ 1st reminder to participate in our web survey on data annotation bottlenecks and active learning; apologies for cross-posting ++
Dear list members,
We invite you to participate in our web survey exploring how recent advancements in NLP, such as LLMs, have changed the need for labeled data in Supervised Machine Learning.
Survey details:
* Topic: Web survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning
* Target group: Researchers and practitioners alike in the fields of NLP, Supervised Machine Learning, and Active Learning in particular (knowledge of Active Learning is not required)
* Duration: 5-15 minutes
* Deadline for participation: January 12, 2025
* Survey link: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/umfragen/limesurvey/index.php/538271
Why should I invest my time in this survey?
* Make an impact: Participate in a community-effort and help to gain a better understanding of the current state and open issues on methods that are used to overcome a lack of labeled data.
* Gain insights: Receive a report with key findings to incorporate these insights into research and development of new methods and technologies.
Thank you for considering participating in our survey!
If you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at activelearningsurvey2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:activeLearningSurvey2024@gmail.com>.
If you know colleagues or peers who might be interested, we'd be grateful if you could forward this survey to them as well.
Best regards,
Julia Romberg (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)
Christopher Schröder (Institut für Angewandte Informatik e. V., Germany)
Julius Gonsior (TUD Dresden University of Technology)
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Julia Romberg
Computational Social Science, Team Data Science Methods
+49(221)47694-742
Apologies for cross-posting.
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*The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of
Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025)*
*https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>*
*@ NAACL 2025 (May 3–4, 2025)*
*Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.*
*SUBMISSION*
*
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT>https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT>*
*TIMELINE*
*Paper submission due:* January 30, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
*Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline:* February 20, 2025
*Notification of acceptance:* March 1, 2025
*Camera-ready papers due:* March 10, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
*Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline):* April 8, 2025
*Workshop dates at NAACL 2025:* May 3–4, 2025
*SCOPE*
Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT)
workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING
2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, we introduce LoResMT 2025 workshop at NAACL
2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on
MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in
general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for
low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also
solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any
language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these
NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of
these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT
output.
*TOPICS*
We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2)
review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however,
we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.
- Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages
- Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages
- Pivot MT for low-resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages
- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation
*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and
position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review
and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4)
and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For
system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions
should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates
(Overleaf). Please refer to the NAACL submission guideline for further
information <https://2025.naacl.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-details>.
Accepted papers will be published at ACL Anthology in the NAACL 2025 and
will be presented at the conference.
Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided
submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to
other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other
venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be
double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in
person at NAACL 2025. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open
Review
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT>.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language
that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic
items and their corresponding English translations are provided.
Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2025.naacl.org/).
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway
Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines)
Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University
Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore
Ali Hatami, University of Galway
Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), University of Trento
Anna Currey, AWS AI Labs
Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology
Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP
Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University
Chao-hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA
Daan van Esch, Google
Dana Moukheiber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS
Flammie Pirinen, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Gaurav Negi, University of Galway
Jinliang Lu, Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
John Philip McCrae, University of Galway
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University
Majid Latifi, UPC University
Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Milind Agarwal, George Mason University
Mathias Müller, University of Zurich
Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University and Lexical Computing
Pengwei Li, Meta
Rashid Ahmad, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich
Santanu Pal, Wipro
Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University
Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki
Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University
Wen Lai, LMU Munich
Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen
Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University
Yasmin Moslem, Bering Lab
Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University
*CONTACT*
Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any
questions/comments/suggestions.
(apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleague,
We invite you to participate in the 2025 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at
CLEF 2025. This year, we feature four tasks ---one follow-up and three
new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full
fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages:
Task 1 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed
with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available
in Arabic, English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Multilingual.
Task 2 Claim Normalization. to simplify the primary claim made in the
social media post into a concise form. This task is offered in 20
languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, German, Greek, French, Hindi,
Korean, Marathi, Indonesian, Dutch, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai.
Task 3 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. to verify claims with numerical
quantities and temporal expressions. Available in Arabic, English and
Spanish.
Task 4 Scientific Web Discourse Processing (SciWeb). to (a) classify
different forms of science-related online discourse and (b) retrieve the
scientific paper that serves as the source for the claim from a given pool
of candidate scientific papers. Available in English.
Register and participate:
https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php
Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/
Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab
Important Dates
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- November 2024: Lab registration opens
- December 2024: Release of the training materials
- 25 April 2025: Lab registration closes
- 30 April 2025: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release)
- 10 May 2025 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission)
- 30 May 2025: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS]
- 30 May – 27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers
- 9 June 2025: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS]
- 16 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Condensed Lab Overviews
[LNCS]
- 23 June 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due
- 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS]
- 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers and Extended Lab
Overviews [CEUR-WS] due
- 21-25 July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors
and Lab Organizers
- 9-12 September 2025: CLEF 2025 Conference in Madrid, Spain
Best regards,
The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers
Call for Workshop Proposals
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RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Summer School DLinNLP 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday)
Tutorials 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops and Shared Tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday)
Varna, Bulgaria
https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
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Following the workshops held in conjunction with the Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007, RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013, RANLP-2015, RANLP-2017, RANLP-2019, RANLP-2021 and RANLP-2023, we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for RANLP-2025.
RANLP-2025 invites workshop proposals on any topic of interest to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, ranging from fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or commercial aspects. We encourage workshops related to (or discussing the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo sessions. The format of each workshop (face-to-face or hybrid) can be determined by its organisers the condition being that onsite sessions are held in Varna for the whole workshop duration so that other RANLP participants can take part in the event. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to RANLP-2025 (full registration including the summer school, tutorials, all workshops, main conference, reception, conference dinner).
VENUE
The workshops will take place in Hotel "Cherno More", Varna, the main RANLP-2025 conference venue. If more than 5 workshops are selected, the RANLP-2025 organisers will provide conference halls in some of the neighbouring hotels or universities in downtown Varna.
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2025
Workshop selection: 22 March 2025
Workshop website due: 5 April 2025
Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025, immediately after RANLP notification
Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025
Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025
Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025
Workshops: 11-13 September 2025
REQUIREMENTS
Proposals should be no longer than five pages and should contain the following:
1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on;
2. Brief description of the target audience, including estimates of the numbers of submissions and attendees (a tentative list of potential contributors would be useful);
3. List of related workshops/events held in the last three years or to be held in 2025;
4. Tentative workshop program committee;
5. Names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organising committee;
6. Description of the experience of the proposed organisers in the workshop topics and in organising workshops or related events.
The workshop Organising Committee is responsible for the following:
* Setting up and maintaining the workshop website;
* Disseminating call for papers/participation;
* Organising paper submission, review process, authors notification, and collecting audio/visual presentation requirements;
* Verifying the camera-ready copies, providing electronic conference proceedings which are to be generated with the conference management system START;
* In case of hybrid workshops, organising an onsite workshop component and chairing the live sessions in Varna.
Workshop invited speakers: If the workshop organisers intend to host an invited talk, it is recommended that they invite somebody from the main conference keynote speakers or participants. If the workshop organisers decide to invite another speaker, it is very likely that the workshop organisers will have to secure financial support for this speaker.
The RANLP-2025 Organising Committee is responsible for the following:
* Providing a link to the workshop web page;
* Publishing the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers, and registering DOI numbers for all accepted papers;
* Providing the workshop venue;
* Organising registration, audio/visual support, coffee breaks, registration facilities, Internet access.
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
Workshop proposals in PDF format should be e-mailed to Tharindu Ranasinghe <t.ranasinghe[at]lancaster[dot]ac[dot]uk>, Kiril Simov <kivs[at]bultreebank[dot]org>, Petya Osenova <petya[at]bultreebank[dot]org> and cc'ed to <workshops2025(a)ranlp.org<mailto:workshops2025@ranlp.org>>
EVALUATION
Submitted proposals will be reviewed with respect to the following criteria:
* Relevance, importance, and timeliness of the topics;
* Completeness, clarity, and quality of the workshop proposal;
* Experience of the organisers in the proposed topics;
* Viability of the workshop.
THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee)
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Commitee)
Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair)
Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair)
Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair)
Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Varna, Bulgaria
http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday)
Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday)
The biennial RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) conference is one of the most competitive and influential NLP conferences. The event grew out of the International Summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by Programme Committee experts. Since 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The Proceedings has its own Scopus SJR, in 2023 it is 0,299. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) for Natural Language Processing (NLP) as well as tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting edge technologies. RANLP-2025 will be followed by specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics. A Student Research Workshop will be held in parallel with the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers.
TOPICS
We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and particularly encourage submissions related to (and the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Contributions from a broad range of areas will be welcome including, but not limited to, the following topics: phonetics, phonology, morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; complexity; mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models; language resources and corpora; crowdsourcing for creation of linguistic resources; electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; sublanguages and controlled languages; linked data; POS tagging; parsing; semantic role labelling; word-sense disambiguation; multiword expressions and computational phraseology; textual entailment; anaphora resolution; temporal processing; language generation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; multilingual NLP; machine translation, translation memory systems and computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability estimation; knowledge acquisition; information retrieval; text categorisation; information extraction; text summarisation; terminology extraction; question answering; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; fact checking and fake news; stance recognition; hate speech and aggression detection; author profiling; dialogue systems; chatbots and conversational agents; irony and sarcasm detection; negation and speculation detection; computer-aided language learning; multimodal systems; language and vision; NLP for biomedical texts; NLP for educational applications; NLP for healthcare; NLP for financial purposes; NLP for legal texts; for the Semantic web; theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP.
CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster)
CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The Programme Committee (PC) members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time.
Keynote speakers, tutorial presenters, and summer school lecturers and tutors will be announced in the upcoming calls for papers.
WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS:
The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. Calls for Proposals of Workshop and Shared Tasks have been already published.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology.
RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025.
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Shared Tasks proposals: September 2024
Shared Tasks selection notification: 4 November 2024
Shared Tasks sample data and task website ready: 15 November 2024
Shared Tasks training data ready: 15 December 2024
Call for workshop proposals: 24 December 2024
Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025
Workshop selection: 22 March 2025
Conference abstracts submission: April 2025
Conference papers submission: early/mid May 2025 (please check exact dates on RANLP 2025 website)
Conference papers acceptance notification: 28 June 2025
Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025
Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025
Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025
Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025
Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025
RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025
RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday)
RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday)
RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday)
VENUE
RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers plan to organise an excursion to Provadia, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna.
THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee)
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Commitee)
Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair)
Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair)
Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair)
Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
*** Second Call for Papers ***
We invite paper submissions to the Explainable Deep Neural Networks for
Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025),
a special session at IJCNN 2025 dedicated to innovative methodologies for
improving the interpretability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), while
addressing fairness and bias mitigation.
Website: https://deepxplain.github.io/
Important Dates:
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Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/
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Submission deadline: January 15, 2025
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Notification date: March 15, 2025
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Camera-ready submission: May 1, 2025
Contributions
This special session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration,
promote the ethical design of AI systems, and encourage the development of
benchmarks and datasets for explainability research. Our goal is to advance
both post-hoc and intrinsic interpretability approaches, bridging the gap
between the high performance of deep neural networks and their
transparency. By doing so, we seek to enhance human trust in these models
and mitigate the risks of negative social impacts.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Theoretical advancements in post-hoc explanation methods (e.g., LIME,
SHAP, Grad-CAM) for DNNs.
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Development of inherently interpretable architectures using
self-explaining mechanisms, such as attention-based or saliency-based
models, prototype networks, and SENNs (Self-Explaining Neural Networks).
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Post-hoc and self-explaining methods for Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Application-driven explainability insights, particularly in Natural
Language Processing and Computer Vision.
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Ethical evaluations of DNN-based AI models with a focus on reducing bias
and social impact.
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Methods, metrics, and methodologies for improving interpretability and
fairness in DNNs.
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Ethical discussions about the social impact of non-transparent AI models.
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Datasets and benchmarking tools for explainability.
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Explainable AI in critical applications: healthcare, governance,
misinformation, hate speech, etc.
Submission Information
We welcome submissions of academic papers (both long and short) across the
spectrum of theoretical and practical work, including research ideas,
methods, tools, simulations, applications or demonstrations, practical
evaluations, position papers, and surveys. Submissions must be written in
English, adhere to the IJCNN-2025 formatting guidelines, and be submitted
as a single PDF file.
*Organizers*
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Francielle Vargas <https://franciellevargas.github.io/>, University of
São Paulo, Brazil
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Roseli Romero <https://sites.icmc.usp.br/rafrance/>, University of São
Paulo, Brazil
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Jackson Trager <https://www.jacksonptrager.com/>, University of Southern
California, USA
Dear all
A correction of the previous seminar talk - the time should be **GMT**.
Also please see the information for the upcoming seminar.
***Seminar 2: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025, 15:00 to 16:00, GMT (London time)***
Speaker: Prof Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Title: What's Behind Text? The Long, Challenging Path Towards a Unified Language-Independent Representation of Meaning
Abstract: In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the pursuit of a unified, language-independent representation of meaning remains both essential and complex. This talk revisits the rationale for advancing semantic understanding beyond the capabilities of LLMs and highlights the development of a large-scale multilingual inter-task resource like MOSAICo and the design of innovative methods that bridge word- and sentence-level meanings across languages. I will also explore how building a robust, multilingual framework for interpreting meaning with greater precision and depth enhances the quality and reliability of system outputs, including text generated by LLMs.
Speaker's short bio: Roberto Navigli is Professor of Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he leads the Sapienza NLP Group. He has received two ERC grants on lexical and sentence-level multilingual semantics, highlighted among the 15 projects through which the ERC transformed science. He received several prizes, including two Artificial Intelligence Journal prominent paper awards and several outstanding/best paper awards from ACL. He is the co-founder of Babelscape, a successful deep-tech company which enables NLU in dozens of languages. He served as Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020) and Program Co-Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021. He is a Fellow of ACL, ELLIS and EurAI and currently serves as General Chair of ACL 2025.
Check past and upcoming seminars at the following url: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars.
Best regards
Hang Dong (https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/staff/hd524)
on behalf of the NLVP group (https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/members)
[Apologies for cross-postings]
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First Call for Papers
21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025)
Organized, sponsored and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on
the Lexicon of the ACL
Full-day workshop collocated with NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
U.S.A., May 3 or 4, 2025
Hybrid (on-site & on-line)
Submission deadline: January 30, 2025
MWE 2025 website: <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/>
https://multiword.org/mwe2025/
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Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical,
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin
and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and
“break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language
Processing (NLP). The notion encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms,
compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures,
collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature,
MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g. annotation),
NLP tasks (e.g. parsing), and end-user applications (e.g. natural language
understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open
issue for computational linguistics (Constant et al., 2017).
For more than two decades, modelling and processing MWEs for NLP has been
the topic of the MWE workshop organised by the MWE section
<https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in
conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has
been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much
research considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is
also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle
terminologies most often realised as MWEs. Following previous years, for
this 21st edition of the workshop, we identified the following topics on
which contributions are particularly encouraged:
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MWE processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs gained particular
attention in end-user applications, including Machine Translation (MT)
(Zaninello and Birch, 2020), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020),
language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2020), social media mining
(Pelosi et al., 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al.
2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first
attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further
end-user applications.
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MWE processing and identification in the general language, as well as in
specialized languages and domains: Multiword terminology extraction from
domain-specific corpora (Lossio-Ventura et al, 2014) is of particular
importance to various applications, such as MT (Semmar and Laib, 2017), or
for the identification and monitoring of neologisms and technical jargon
(Chatzitheodorou and Kappatos, 2021).
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MWE processing in low-resource languages: The PARSEME shared tasks (2017
<https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_05_MWE_2…>,
2018
<https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_04_LAW-M…>,
2020
<https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_02_MWE-L…>)
among others, have fostered significant progress in MWE identification,
providing datasets that include low-resource languages, evaluation
measures, and tools that now allow fully integrating MWE identification
into end-user applications. There are continuous efforts in this direction
(Diaz Hernandez, 2024) and a few of them have also explored methods for the
automatic interpretation of MWEs (Bhatia et al., 2018), and their
processing in low-resource languages (Eder et al., 2021). Resource creation
and sharing should be pursued in parallel with the development of
multilingual benchmarks for MWE identification (Savary et al., 2023).
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MWE identification and interpretation in LLMs: Most current MWE
processing is limited to their identification and detection using
pre-trained language models, but we still lack understanding about how MWEs
are represented and dealt with therein (Garcia et al., 2021), how to better
model the compositionality of MWEs from semantics (Phelps et al., 2024).
Now that NLP has shifted towards end-to-end neural models like BERT,
capable of solving complex tasks with little or no intermediary linguistic
symbols, questions arise about the extent to which MWEs should be
implicitly or explicitly modelled (Shwartz and Dagan, 2019).
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New and enhanced representation of MWEs in language resources and
computational models of compositionality as gold standards for formative
intrinsic evaluation.
Through this workshop, we will bring together and encourage researchers in
various NLP subfields to submit their MWE-related research, We also intend
to consolidate the converging results of previous joint workshops LAW-MWE-CxG
2018 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018/>, MWE-WN 2019
<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwewn2019/> and MWE-LEX 2020
<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/>, the joint MWE-WOAH panel in
2021 <https://multiword.org/mwe2021/#program>, the MWE-SIGUL 2022 joint
session <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/>, and the MWE-UD 2024
<https://multiword.org/mweud2024/>, extending our scope to MWEs in
e-lexicons, and WordNets, MWE annotation, as well as grammatical
constructions. Correspondingly, we call for papers on research related (but
not limited) to MWEs and constructions in:
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Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and
corpus linguistics;
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Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in
resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions
(also for low-resource languages);
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Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG,
LFG, TAG, UD, etc.);
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Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized
languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP;
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Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them;
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Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g.
tweets, speech);
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Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques;
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Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks;
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Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation,
language learning, etc.);
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Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and
end-user applications;
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Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models;
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Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration
into end-user applications;
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Multiword terminology extraction;
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Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new
languages and domains including low-resource ones.
Submission formats:
The workshop invites two types of submissions:
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archival submissions that present substantially original research in
both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4
pages + references).
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non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research
presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE
proceedings.
Paper submission and templates
Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE> (
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE). Please
choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival
papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling
Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025
Workshop: May 3 or 4, 2025
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth).
Organizing Committee
Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Voula Giouli, Grazina Korvel, A. Seza Doğruöz,
Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant
Anti-harassment policy
The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>.
Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the
Organizing Committee at mweworkshop2023(a)googlegroups.com.